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Quotes About Distinction

The gruesomeness of 'Death Line' was an absolute necessity for me to bring up the political content of the film. I wanted to show how devastating class distinction could be.
~ Gary Sherman
France needs to find something that makes it stand out. It's not enough for it to do almost as well as its neighbors.
~ Bernard Liautaud
I'm not asking myself, 'How I can be different from Netanyahu?' because I am different, and Kadima is different from Likud, by its own nature.
~ Tzipi Livni
I've got my Peabody and my Saturn awards right next to each other on my mantle, and that is about it, and that is all that matters.
~ Katee Sackhoff
individuals who were more or less happy with themselves, secure in their own souls, usually opened themselves to new friendships. It was those whose ancestry and native status were their only hopes for distinction who tended to be critical and cold toward "new people.
~ Noah Gordon
Language has a creative character: it is typically innovative without bounds, appropriate to circumstance but not caused by them – a crucial distinction – and can engender thoughts in others that they recognise they could have expressed themselves.
~ Noam Chomsky
I am led to the proposition that there is no fiction or nonfiction as we commonly understand the distinction; there is only narrative." From
~ Nora Ephron
Don't say hit and mountain in the same sentence.
~ Nora Roberts
It's hard for Americans to differentiate between talent and notoriety; TV confuses people.
~ Chuck Klosterman
Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
You tell yourself that noise is what defines silence. Without noise, silence would not be golden. Noise is the exception.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
If you're fixin' to get yourself a good stallion, don't go lookin' in the donkey corral.
~ Ciji Ware
but as his years advanced Lewis had seen less and less purpose in distinguishing between fact and fiction.
~ Clive Barker
What does Spinoza say in his Ethics? —"Affectus, qui passio est, desinit esse passio simulatque eius claram et distinctam formamus ideam." Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
Spinoza say in his Ethics? —"Affectus, qui passio est, desinit esse passio simulatque eius claram et distinctam formamus ideam." Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
What does Spinoza say in his Ethics? —"Affectus, qui passio est, desinit esse passio simulatque eius claram et distinctam formamus ideam." Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it. The
~ Viktor E. Frankl
Affectus, qui passio est, desinit esse passio simulatque eius claram et distinctam formamus ideam." Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
What does Spinoza say in his Ethics?—"Affectus, qui passio est, desinit esse passio simulatque eius claram et distinctam formamus ideam." Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it. The prisoner who had lost faith in the future—his future—was doomed.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
It seemed to her such nonsense-inventing differences, when people, heaven knows, were different enough without that.
~ Virginia Woolf
The discovery of personal whiteness among the world's peoples is a very modern thing,--a nineteenth and twentieth century matter, indeed. The ancient world would have laughed at such a distinction.
~ W. E. B. Du Bois
The most important distinction between aggression and assertion is its intent. During assertion, we move ourselves toward another; during aggression, we move ourselves against another.
~ lanoil georgia
Yet it also remains the case that typically NT authors can distinguish "God" and Jesus. Jesus never displaces "God" in the NT, and the two are never pictured as in tension or competition with each other.
~ Larry W. Hurtado
The officers had their own cabins, cramped, to be sure, but a mark of distinction
~ Laurence Bergreen
Though hardly a revolutionary insight, the comment set Pigafetta apart from sages such as Pliny and Marco Polo
~ Laurence Bergreen